Background
Felts, William Robert was born on April 24, 1923 in Judsonia, Arkansas, United States. Son of Wylie Robert and Willie Etidorpha (Lewis) Felts.
Felts, William Robert was born on April 24, 1923 in Judsonia, Arkansas, United States. Son of Wylie Robert and Willie Etidorpha (Lewis) Felts.
Bachelor of Science, University Arkansas, 1944. Doctor of Medicine, University Arkansas, 1946.
Intern Garfield Memorial Hospital, Washington, 1946—1947. Resident in medicine Gallinger Municipal Hospital, 1949—1951, George Washington University Hospital, 1951—1953, trainee in rehabilitation (rheumatology), 1955—1957. Assistant chief arthritis research unit Veterans Administration Hospital, Washington, 1953—1954, adjunct assistant chief, 1954—1958, chief, 1958—1962.
Consultant in rheumatology United States Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Maryland, 1959—1970. Member faculty department medicine George Washington University, instructor, 1957—1959, assistant professor, 1959—1962, associate professor, 1962—1980, professor, 1980—1993, professor emeritus, from 1993, director division rheumatology, 1970—1979, member university faculty senate executive committee, 1991—1993. Member National Commission on Arthritis and Related Musculoskeletal Diseases, 1975—1976, National Arthritis advisory board, 1977—1980, 1990—1993.
Member national committee on health policy Project Hope, 1977. Member steering committee Health Policy Agenda for American People, 1982—1987. Member National Committee Vital and Health Statistics, 1983—1987, 1988—1991.
Member advisory committee on disabilities White House Conference on Aging, 1995. Member District of Columbia Health Planning Advisory Committee, 1969—1972, World Health Organization Task Force on Rheumatology in Developing Countries, 1982, 84, United States Delaware to 10th Revision Conference International Classification of Diseases. Chairman medical advisory committee District of Columbia chapter Arthritis Foundation, 1963—1985, vice chairman of chapter board directors, 1983—1994, chairman, 1992—1996.
Board directors Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care, 1980—1988, president-elect, 1982—1983, president, 1983—1984. Consultant health affairs and member professional advisory board Control Data Corporation, 1976—1983, National Center for Health Statistics, 1991—1993. With United States Army, 1947-1949.
Life is not about things. Life is relationships. Foremost of those relationships is the one we hold with Jesus Christ.
Church members should educate themselves on the moral issues being debated in the public arena.
Responsibility for parenting is to encourage social, economic, and religious efforts to maintain and strengthen relationships within families in order that every member may be assisted toward complete personhood.
Board directors National Capital Medical Foundation, 1979—1984, president, 1980—1981. Master: American College Rheumatology. Fellow: American College Medical Informatics.
Member: American Medical Association (council on legislation 1980-1990, chairman 1985-1987, chairman editorial advisory panel Christian Peacemaker Teams-4 1980-1992), Medical Association South Africa (lecturer 1995, 1996), International League Against Rheumatism (chairman subcommittee on classification and nomenclature 1982-1994, member epidemiology committee 1989-1993), Rheumatism Society District of Columbia (president 1963-1964), Southern Medical Association (secretary section internal medicine 1978-1979, vice chairman 1979-1980, chairman 1980-1981, associate councilor 1979-1981, 1985-1986), District of Columbia Society Internal Medicine (executive council 1975-1978), District of Columbia Medical Society (chairman legislation committee 1972-1976, 1976-1978), Institute Medicine National Academy of Sciences, American Society Internal Medicine (director 1968-1978, president 1976-1977), National Academy Practice in Medicine (chairman 1991-1993), National Academies of Practice (president 1993-1996), Kappa Sigma, Phi Chi, Alpha Epsilon Delta.
Married Jeanne E. Kennedy, February 17, 1954 (divorced 1971). Children: William R. III, Thomas Wylie, Samuel Clay, Melissa Jeanne. Married Lila Mitchell Dudley, February 14, 1987 (deceased February 1993).